HOUR SIXTY-ONE
Icy winter in South Dakota. A bus skids and crashes in a gathering storm. On the back seat: Jack Reacher,hitching a ride to nowhere. A life without baggage has many advantages. And disadvantages too,like facing the arctic cold without a coat.
HOUR THIRTY-ONE
A small town is threatened by sinister forces. One brave woman is standing up for justice.If she's going to live to testify,she'll need help from a man like Reacher.Because there's a killercoming for her.
HOUR ZERO
Has Reacher finally met his match He doesn't want to put the world to rights. He just doesn't like people who put it to wrongs.
Waterstones have been following the nail-biting exploits of Jack Reacher since he first loped into town in Killing Floor in 1997,a striking figure standing at 6ft5 all dirty-blond hair,with a chip on his shoulder and a lethal ability. His creator Lee Child lays claim to the fact that every second somewhere in the world somebody buys one of his novels.
He starts every new novel on the same date,the 1st September and has managed to keep fans coming back for more every time,he says of thriller-writing'It's the only real genre and all the other stuff has grown on the side of it like barnacles'.
Publisher: Transworld Publishers LtdISBN: 9780553825565Number of pages: 512Weight: 346 gDimensions: 198 x 127 x 30 mm
MEDIA REVIEWS
"Reacher is an iconic modern thriller hero: the ultimate loner...Fast,compelling and with that nugget of poignancy that sets the hero apart" - Daily Mail
"Child has somehow forged that magical grail: a new and believable hero. Reacher is strong,tall,principled and a quiet master in unarmed combat. But he's also a wizard at determining likelihoods,at extrapolating miniscule details and thus forming chains of inferred logic... celebrate the achievement of giving us addicts a new and mesmerising fix,when we thought all the heroes had been written" - Observer
"It is always a pleasure to read another Jack Reacher novel. A kind of highlight of the year,really. There is only one downside. It's all the other people hanging around your house saying things like,"Oy! Haven't you finished with the Reacher yet" - Independent
"Explodes into one of the best thrillers I've read for ages. Lee Child is a Brit who has managed to becomes more American than most US authors... 61 Hours is destined to do big things... Superb stuff!" - Independent on Sunday
"This is the first of Lee Child's popular Jack Reacher novels I've read. I'd assumed they were merely the macho adventures of a boneheaded lone wolf: lots of guns and explosions and little to occupy the mind. Well,I was wrong: there's also an abundance of intelligence and surprise. 61 Hours is a first-class thriller... Child delivers it brilliantly" - Mail on Sunday
Lee Child
One of Waterstones'very favourite authors,Lee Child sprang from redundancy at Granada Television in 1995 to rise to thriller-writing pre-eminence with his sequence of stories featuring ex-military policeman Jack Reacher. A huge draw at countless Waterstones events,working with Lee over the years has for us always been an absolute pleasure.
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